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because, she said, "I am a little bird in flight~you are my little bird in flight friend - we don't know where we will be".
breathe.
Quoted by Littlem
Cockatoo in my garden Brisbane Australia.
"Quirky" 1974 Yashica 500mm Catadioptric Lens
on a Nikon D700.
This is the first action my mirror lens has seen in about three years. Back when I bought it (for some ridiculous cheap sum, partly due to being second-hand and partly because of how the name "Rokinon" just screams quality), I mostly used it to shoot distant objects at infinity. Then I'd pixel-peep the digital shots, get very discouraged by how soft the lens was, and put it away for months, eventually years.
These days I've grown out of the sharpness obsession that seems to afflict every newbie photographer, and can appreciate how to use a soft long tele lens for the creative opportunities it provides. In this case, there's the thin depth of field from the 500mm focal length, being able to use the lens's low contrast to counteract a glarey scene, and that wacky donut bokker which looks great as long as you don't have a busy background. Plus that glare on the armrest would bring out the worst in chromatic aberrations on a refractive lens, whereas here we have no problem at all.
So yeah, at last I have some love for the mirror lens. But if you're still at the stage of debating over which "glass" to buy next for maximum sharpness, you should probably steer clear of them for now.
For David Foster Wallace (Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace), his debut taught him that writing fiction "took him out of time and released him from some of the pain of being himself."
I feel that way about my photography ~
Opteka Mirror Lens, 500mm, f8.0, ISO 800, 1/800
OPTEKA Mirror Lens, 500mm, f8.0
I like it because of the color shift, soft focus, romance, intended softness, flare, and donut bokeh effect~
Its cold and been raining all day so rather than go out and take a picture I put my old 500mm mirror lens on my Canon 650D and took a picture from the back door of a lonesome leaf on our neighbors Acer tree at the end of the garden.
Cockatoo in my garden Brisbane Australia.
"Quirky" 1974 Yashica 500mm Catadioptric Lens
on a Nikon D700.
Cockatoo in my garden Brisbane Australia.
"Quirky" 1974 Yashica 500mm Catadioptric Lens
on a Nikon D700.
Took my new Rokinon 500mm f/6.3 (manual focus/fixed aperture) reflex lens out for a daytime test drive today while at work. Mounted to my 5D2 I'm about 30~40 feet away. Shot raw and added a tiny bit of contrast since this lens seems to lack in that department
This is Donges petroleum plant by night with my 500 mm mirror lens. i was aiming to play a bit with donut bokeh.
Male Red Bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) at suet feeder. Shot with a Canon EOS R6 Mark II and Canon FD Reflex 500mm f/8 manual focus telephoto lens.
I took the 500mm mirror lens on an outing today. It is a monster of a thing to hand hold and focus; and it can result in lost shots because of its big zoom. But I love it. My rule today, as always, with this lens is no cropping.